The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Pith and Point.

ground in ILLINOIS.
THE supreme court of Minnesota has de-
cided that women cannot serve on juries.
THERE is nothing so persistent as a drouth
and "A hot spell except rainy season.
RichmOnd state.
A PEACOCK is now the correct thing in the
way of establishment for the lawns Of
country residences.
BILL NYE notices that people who go away
for rest look more rested when they start
than when they come back.
A STATISTICAL sharp has calculated that if
32,OO0,OO0 persons should clasp hands they
could reach around the globe.
A LETTER received at a country post-office
in New Hampshire, addressed " An OK"
was delivered to Miss Ann Knox.
AN advertisement reads Wanted-A
nurse to mind children" 1t was probably
inserted by children Waterbury Americdn
WHEN man loses his temper the temper
lost is generally a bad one, not worth the
noise made over it.-NeW Orleans Picaylne.
WEALTHY ladies with decayed front teeth
now have them filled with diamonds instead
of gold as the latter gives a disagreeable
appearance.
al CAN give you good point" said the
mosquito softly in the ear of the sleeping
editor, for insertion on your outside. -
Chicdgo Tribune.
j. w. JACKSON of White county, Michi-
| RdD, IL lbtuluR lDD,ODV Sllk-WOTIHS, employ
ing eight persons in the work. The worms
consume several hundred pounds of Usage
orange leaves daily.
ONE firm in Newark, n. j., makes 150.-
100000 corkscrews in year. We don't
| know the object of corkscrew, but the
| Newark firm appears to be engaged in
very " crooked " business. - NorriSto,cn
Herdid.
A PHILADELPHIA publisher says the Re-
vised Bible has fallen fiat. Hundreds of
thousands of copies remain on the shelves,
and the people will not have them at any
price. They stick to the Bible of their
fathers and mothers.
GLOW old are you, my SOM" asked an
old gentleman of "tot " who was cele-
bratng his birthday. 81 am four" was the
reply, land I'm mighty glad of it, | was
getting very tired of being three all the
time. ''-Leis,re Hours.
A TREE called the umbrella tree of Japan,
now growing in yard at Tallahassee, Fla,
though only three years old, has leaves on
it that measure twenty-one inches by six
teen. 1t is umbrella-shaped and makes
shelter that is impervious to sunshine or
rain
HARVEY Cox, living near Cincinnati, has
invented an electric trumpet by which sound
is magniied and transmitted in the open air
for four to ten miles, and the instrument
can be heard indistinctly twenty-six miles.
He claims that conversation has been con-
Quoted at distance of four miles already.
" BEFORE being lynched, Wednesday
night" says one of Bells Dakota exchanges
" Colonel Hossdealer handed us 50 and re-
quested that the Hdyrdke be continued to
his family for another year. The colonel
is gentleman and philosophical citizen.
Our best wishes accompany him. - EStdiiine
(DdkOtd) Bell.
IT is said that nine-tenths of the wild ami
mails in confinement are subject to heart
disease. Elephants are subject to many dis
eases, but the most common and fatal is
rheumatism. Monkeys generally die from
bronchial affections and heart disease:
lions, tigers, leopards, deer and antelope
from dysentery and heart disease wolves
and foxes bear confinement very well.
THE purleus of Naples are nearly as
crowded with seething humanity at this sea-
son as the tenement-houses of New York,
yet the hot weather makes no such massacre
of the innocents as it does here. " The rea-
son" said an Italian lady, " is because poor
Neapolitan children are allowed to run about
naked. while American babies are swathed
in flannels till they die of weakness caused
by excessive Precipitation
ACCORDING to " Sells Dictionary of the
Worlds Press" the word news is not de-
rived, as might be supposed, from the word
new Between the years 1895 and 1870 it
was the practice to put over the periodical
publications of the day the initial letters of
the cardinal points Of the compass, thus
, y T. w >, implying That those papers con-
tanned intelligence from the four quarters
of the globe, and from this practice is de-
rived the term of newspaper.
A MAN near London recently made a bet
that he could kill, clean, cook and eat a
| spring chicken in fifteen minutes. Prepare
tory to the contest he secured the chicken
and provided himself with pot of boiling
water IA bucket of cold water, hot skillet
) and hot fat-iron. When time was called
he jerked the chickens head off, doused it
in pot of boiling water, slipped the feath-
ers off, cleaned il and then laid the fry flat
in the pan, with the tiat-ron on top to cook
the upper side. AT the close of eleven and
a half minutes he had the chicken-bOnes
beautifully polished.
| / HAVE been to see a cake-a cake so big
2 that a capital c conveys no idea of the size,
2 nor yet tells of the feeling, akin to awe, in
spired by this ma jestic monument of confeC-
tionery. Imagine stand the size of family
dinner-table covered and draped with rich
: crimson velvet embroidered in gold and
bearing the royal arms of England in raised
1 bullion. From this stand rises in marble
wilderness the king of cakes, eleven feet in
| the air, with a belt measure of three and a
, half yards. 1t cost POO guineas about
81 900 and weighs half ton. Cut up, it
5 would give big slice each to 5000 people,
] LOndOn Letter.
A CLOCK recently patented in France is an
imitation of a tambourine on the parch-
ment head of which is painted circle of
! flowers corresponding to the hour figures of
9 ordinary dials. On examination two bees,
: one large and the other small, are discov-
cred crawling among the flowers. The
small bee runs rapidly from one flower to
another, completing the circle in an hour,
while the large one takes twelve hours to
j, complete the circuit The parchment sur
face is unbroken and the bees simply laid
! upon it, but two magnets connected with
;, the clock-work inside the tambOurne move
! Just under the membrane and the insects,
!. which are of iron, follow them.
4 A YOUNG Methodist preacher entering
: upon a new field of labor last spring found
2 himself for the first time in possession of a
: gardener the material for making one.
q He determined to raise all the vegetables
required for home consumption, and TO do
! all the work himself. The exercise would be
: good for him He had had no experience
p but was a close observer. He had seen and
| heard of hills of corn and potato-hills. Sc
h he reared his mounds of earth at the regula-
: ton distance apart and inserted the seed
p near the top. The corn was sufficiently
D high last week to be uprooted by the wind
| but the potatoes do not appear 10 have grown
at all. The reverend gentleman doesn't
understand it, He knows he followed the
| approved plan.-Erchange.
e THE Somerset House register at Plymouth
= Mass, under date of Saturday, bears the
= following unique inscription: Z" Mrs. 4. p.
! WVman and grandson prandson'S amt